Piero Sartogo and Nathalie Grenon: Architecture in Perspective - Softcover

Sartogo, Piero; Grenon, Nathalie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1885254512 ISBN 13: 9781885254511

Verlag: Monacelli Press, 1998

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(Piero Sartogo and Nathalie Grenon are, as Richard Meier writes in his foreword, European architects with a world perspective. This volume, clearly demonstrating that world perspective, is the first on the work of the Rome - and New York-based architectural practice. More than 30 projects built, unbuilt, and under construction from around the world the United States, Italy, France, Spain, Switzerland, Wales, Japan, and Taiwan are included in this monograph. The projects, organized in reverse chronological order, are illuminated by critiques and essays by such leading architectural writers as Rudolf Arnheim, Bruno Zevi, Paul Goldberger, and Kenneth Frampton. This unique organization creates an intense dialogue between architectural criticism and built form The book opens with the new Italian Embassy in Washington, D.C., currently under construction, Sartpgo and Grenon's most important project in the United States. Several significant projects in New York are featured, including the Italian Trade Center and the Banca di Roma, both located in midtown Manhattan. Also shown are urban planning projects, important international competitions, product design, installations for both exhibitions and expositions, and Sartogo's seminal early projects, the Gescal Public Housing Development in Milan and the MedicafAssociation Building in Rome. Through all their work, as Sartogo writes in the introduction, these international architects constantly perceive new ways to design conceptual space the dimension beyond reality . .. that lives within the physical structure of rooms and buildings and that needs to be articulated.

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Piero Sartogo and Nathalie Grenon are widely considered to be one of the most prolific and distinguished architecture teams working today. Based in Italy, they continue to build architecture and exhibit their work around the world, as well as teach and lecture in many of the top architecture schools. Their signature aesthetic is created by their sensitivity to urban design themes, by attempting to place architectonic form in a specific dialogue with the context.

Their award-winning work has appeared in numerous publications, magazines, and journals over the past two decades, and collected here for the first time ever -- in one single volume -- are forty-five projects, spanning fifteen years of collaboration. Their extensive oeuvre includes projects for the Italian Embassy in Washington, D.C., the Banca di Roma's Manhattan Headquarters, Taichung Civic Center in Taiwan, the Opera House in Cardiff, the Bulgari Stores in New York City and Tokyo, Gescal Public Housing in Milan, the Fashion Institute of Technology (F.I.T) and the Italian Trade Center in New York City, among others.

This monograph -- a dialogue between architectural criticism and built form -- presents their work with a selected group of thirty-five intriguing essays and fascinating interviews, written by such noted authors and critics as Paul Goldberger, Kenneth Frampton, Rudolf Arnheim, C. Ray Smith, Bruno Zevi, Robert Maxwell, Susan Doubilet, Richard Reid, and Benjamin Forgey, on each individual project. The "chronology" starts with the most recent project, then proceeds backward to enlighten the reader on the genesis of the emblematic architectural vocabulary of Piero Sartogo and Nathalie Grenon.

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• Verlag: Monacelli Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1885254512
• ISBN 13: 9781885254511
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208